Today, my lecturer shared a story to us. There is a girl, enroll as business student. When my lecturer asked her what she want to be, she said that she want to be stewartress. Her class mates/ course mates started to throw judgement upon her, laugh at her, some even start to look down on her, saying "what the hell are you doing in business class? You should go to air line company to get some training. Why should you come and get a degree when you are not going to need it in you work?"
Then this girl told my lecturer "yes, i want to be stewartress, but in my job, i will meet people from business class, i need to fill my self about knowledge in business so that i can serve them better, so that i can communicate with them at their level, so i can talk to them about their share, the current economic, the recession. I need to have business knowledge and i am learning this because of my passionate to be a good stewartress " This makes her different from others as she can see a thing from different point of view. I believe she will enjoy her job much more than others do. I believe she will be a good stewartress.
Another story is a young man, a doctor who choose to work at old folk homes instead of work at hospita for 3 years. He is a friend of my lecture. He choose the tough way. When my lecturer ask him the reason he did so, he answer "yes, i know how to apply all my knowledge, i learnt lot enough the theory. But it can't guarantee me to become a good doctor.Text book idn't teach about passion, school didn't teach about love. It must be gained through experience, and that is what i try to gain by working as a servant here." And now, i was told by my lecturer that this doctor is 1 of the owner of IJN (Institute Jantung Negara) or national lung institution.
Last story is about his another old friend (he got many friends hor...), old friend whom he known for almost 13 years, CEO of air asia, Antoni Fernandez. He is not majoring in egineering...as i thought before. He major in accounting. He likes to fly, his dream is to make eevrybody canfly. For this dream, he study accounting, to measure the cost needed, all the revenue and expenditure, and end up as the CEO of 1 of the world leading company.
End of the stories. What my lecturer trying to say; In real life, most of the time, you won't become what you have study... because you have something which called "personality". Our personality drift us as what we going to be. This really works for me; now my heart and mind feel much more larger, my option is no longer "marketing manager, PR,advertising, sales person" I can enjoy class that i like, absorb as many things that i can learn here, then to be applied to the job i really has passionate with. Wish me luck ^.^
